Apr 3, 2024

Wound Center Receives National Awards

Columbus Regional Health Wound Center is proud to be a recipient of the Robert A. Warriner, III Clinical Excellence Award for 2023. The Wound Center is also being recognized as a Center of Distinction, by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. 

The Wound Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months, including a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92 percent. This marks the 8th consecutive year the Wound Center has been named a Center of Distinction. 
To be awarded the Clinical Excellence Award, a Center must score in the top 20th percentile of eligible Wound Care Centers for the 2023 calendar year on the Clinical Excellence measure, which is the Comprehensive Healing Rate weighted by wound mix.
 
To be awarded the Center of Distinction, a Center must be conducting the Medical Surveillance Review process per policy and excel in Key Performance Indicators:
 
1. Patient Satisfaction: Greater than or equal to 92 percent
2. Healing Rate: Greater than or equal to 92 percent
3. Outlier Rate: Less than or equal to 16 percent
4. Median Days to Heal: Less than or equal to 28
 
The Columbus Regional Wound Center is a member of the Healogics network of more than 600 wound care centers, offering highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time. Advanced wound care modalities provided at the CRH Wound Center include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. The center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help progress the healing of the wound.

 

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